Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 14:22 +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:01:52PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Agreed. I have a similar problem on ppc where it's common to have things
like the main PIC on a PCI device. Note that another problem is (or at
least was, i haven't checked recently) the P2P bridge scanning code
that, in a similar way, can block the path to all devices below it. I
-do- have a case for example with Apple Xserve G4's where the main Apple
IO ASIC, which is a PCI device containing the PIC, the power management
controller, and various low level system control IOs is behind a pair of
P2P bridges.
I think the P2P probing code is pretty safe now - there are read-only
accesses to the bridge config, unless you request to reassign the bus
numbers. Though it won't be safe anymore with the patch in question.
In which case I will need to NAK the patch... Note that those Xserve
G4's still have the subtle issue that they -also- reassign bus
numbers :-) But that's going away the day I finally enable domains
support for ppc32 (it's been off for now due to problems with X)
How is this a change in behavior as far as this device is concerned? If
we are doing BAR sizing and moving the base address around, it's going
to cause problems if you try to access the device during this time
whether we disable decode or not.
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